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To Steve Clarke of Manchester

Steve,

you have done more than anybody to counter the appalling propaganda that the inventor of radio, Sir Oliver Lodge FRS, went mad and started “dabbling in the religion of Spiritualism”.

You will have to strike again.

Last night, 29 November on the ‘Yesterday’ television channel, Freeview 19, the documentary “Genius of Britain” made out that it was Marconi who invented radio! This is towards the end of the programme after my fellow atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins, did a first class job in making sure that Alfred Russel Wallace now has equal credit alongside Darwin for putting forward the Theory of Evolution. This time there was no outrageous propaganda that Wallace went mad and started “dabbling in Spiritualism”.

It was Professor Al-Khalili, a dedicated follower of Einstein’s materialistic model of the universe, who continued to write Sir Oliver Lodge out of our history books. Everybody who has made a careful study of life after death knows very well that Alfred Russel Wallace, just the same as our pioneers of radio and television, Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge and John Logie Baird were linking the subject of survival after death with subatomic physics. Forces that are normally out of range of our five physical senses.

Michael

Related material on this site:
Sir Oliver Lodge Invented Radio - Not Marconi A plaque in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History commemorates Sir Oliver Lodge sending the first radio signal on August 14, 1894 at the Oxford meeting of The British Association. Supernormal Phenomena - Letter from Professor Richard Dawkins to Stan Ford (January 22, 1992) Alfred Russel Wallace Vindicated (2013-04-20)

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